The Sideways Jagermeister Porsche 935 is here! We have some great cars coming this spring including the LeMans-winning Audi R18 with four-wheel drive from Slot.it, the all-new Lotus 72 Formula 1 car with super performance from Policar, the first of a new series of 2003 Audi LeMans R8 LMP cars from Slot.it, and 1/24 scale high- performance Ferrari 512M racers from BRM. Pre-order to be sure you get yours.

Sideways SWFIG-005 Martini Racing Figure with umbrella- Estelle

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New Cars Coming Soon

Policar R02A Lotus 72 Hockenheimring 1970—PRE-ORDER NOW!

The Policar Lotus 72 chassis has a double gear reduction with a pair of idler spur gears parallel to the rear axle. The system allows the final drive crown gear to be small enough so there is no ugly gear cover bulge.

SICA30A Audi R8 LMP, No. 6, LeMans 2003—PRE-ORDER NOW!

Mark Donahue and David Hobbs at the 1971 LeMans 24 Hour race. Roger Penske, with lots of help from the North American Racing Team (NART) whose people had many times dealt with the Le Mans organizers, took this car to France for the 1971 running of the classic 24 hour race. Donahue qualified the car 4th behind three Porsche 917LH cars, unfortunately for the Penske team they would meet a similar fate in the race as those three Porsches….engine failure and a DNF.

BRM037-K Ferrari 512M white unpainted 1/24 scale KIT—PRE-ORDER NOW!

Scalextric C1343T Porsche Power-Slide set—PRE-ORDER NOW!

Space Required: 200 x 130cm, Track Length: 363cm Power slide your way around the entire length of this figure 8 track and tune your skills to the max. Take on your opponent in a full-on door bashing side-by-side duel but watch out at the crossroads where you can make a 180 or 360 turn to confuse your adversary.

New Slot Cars This Week

Many New Arrivals

This week we have of new cars from Ninco, Slot Classics, and Carrera. And speaking of Ninco, many of our newer Ninco cars have lower prices than expected. Also you can find some great deals on Ninco “Formula” cars

Ninco 50602 Lancia 037 Rally Car, Olio Fiat

Ninco 50696 Formula ‘Yellow’

50696 Formula ‘Yellow’.

Ninco’s new “Formula” cars are replicas of historic Formula 1 car shapes that utilize the late-nineties Ninco Jordan F1 body with special paint schemes. The cars have working steering. There are five cars that are identical except for their red, yellow, blue, black or white paint schemes.

Ninco 50697 Formula ‘Red’

50697 Formula ‘Red’ .Ninco’s new “Formula” cars are replicas of historic Formula 1 car shapes that utilize the late-nineties Ninco Jordan F1 body with special paint schemes. The cars have working steering. There are five cars that are identical except for their red, yellow, blue, black or white paint schemes.

Ninco 50698 Formula ‘Blue’

50698 Formula ‘Blue’ .Ninco’s new “Formula” cars are replicas of historic Formula 1 car shapes that utilize the late-nineties Ninco Jordan F1 body with special paint schemes. The cars have working steering. There are five cars that are identical except for their red, yellow, blue, black or white paint schemes.

Ninco 50699 Formula ‘Black’

Ninco’s new “Formula” cars are replicas of historic Formula 1 car shapes that utilize the late-nineties Ninco Jordan F1 body with special paint schemes. The cars have working steering. There are five cars that are identical except for their red, yellow, blue, black or white paint schemes.

Ninco 50700 Formula ‘White’

50700 Formula ‘White’ Ninco’s new “Formula” cars are replicas of historic Formula 1 car shapes that utilize the late-nineties Ninco Jordan F1 body with special paint schemes. The cars have working steering. There are five cars that are identical except for their red, yellow, blue, black or white paint schemes.

Ninco 50648 1/32 Analog RTR “SPORT” Seat Leon Cup Racer #01

Seat Leon Cup Racer 2014, manufactured for the Eurocup championship consisting of 6 races to celebrate around Europe. This is the first car equipped with the new chassis (see picture) and ultra light body.

New chassis tech specs :

Higher stability because of lower center of gravity

Improves cornering speeds by allowing tilting of the body on the chassis

Racer RCR59 Chaparral 2G, Jim Hall, 1968. Preorder now! – $279.99. As soon as they announced their 2E model you just knew that sooner or later they would do a 2G. And now, here it is. This was always the meanest-looking of the Chaparrals and our favorite.

Carrera 62248 GO! Spongebob race set 1/43 scale – $98.99. We told you in an earlier edition of this newsletter that Bikini Bottom was going to join the F1 series. The introduction of this race set further stokes the rumor mill.

Check out these photos from the Pioneer Models web site. These are said to be creations from Pioneer USA (apparently Pioneer’s US distribution arm) that might (or might not) lead to future production models.

This one is described as a “phantom” current-model Camaro GT1 car that could possibly be built on the same chassis platform as one of the Pioneer tube-frame TransAm cars that are due out sometime next year.

This one is a “widebody” Chevy Lumina TransAm/IMSA GTO car that fits a Pioneer Mustang/Camaro chassis (and therefore would also fit a Scalextric TA Camaro chassis). This car is also a “phantom” but it could easily morph into an Oldsmobile Cutlass, which was raced extensively in TransAm/IMSA and was essentially the same car. It looks as though a lot of unorthodox thinking is being explored by Pioneer Models, and the results, no doubt, will be interesting.

This week features a slew of cool new cars from AMT/Polar Lights Slot Cars and Racer! There are a few really nice slot car kits from AMT/Polar Lights featuring an awesome DYI kit for the one and only original Bat Mobile (and the Green Hornet’s car too). New in stock this week, we have new cars and Race sets from NSR and Scalextric. Come on in and browse around… Enjoy!

As we mentioned in our August 4 newsletter a member of the Electric Dream Team recently had the fun job of visiting the Virtuoso Performance race shop in Hayward, California to assemble a slot car track that the VP staff was going to take to Laguna Seca and other vintage racing events as entertainment for their guests. While at the shop our ED team member had the opportunity to photograph the many interesting historic cars VP maintains for its customers. Here is a selection of the photos he took.

This is what you see when you enter the front door. this is the “showroom” with the offices to the right. The walls are covered with posters and photos and the cars and engines on display are just a hint of what lies beyond.

This chair is one of the artifacts on display in the showroom. The autographs include George Follmer, Tom Pryce, J.P. Jarier, and Jackie Oliver, all Shadow drivers, plus many others. See if you can make out all the famous signatures.

For all you Porschephiles and Gulfophiles, how about this? A Porsche 911 GT3 in Gulf Porsche colors for a really nice retro touch.

And sitting right next to the Porsche is an Aston Martin DBR2 replica in a beautiful metallic green as on the original Aston Martin works race cars.

And speaking of Aston Martins, here’s one to die for…

Or how about a Ferrari 288 GTO?

The Len Terry-designed Shelby King Cobra was never much of a performer, but you have to love the shape of it.

This is either the latest Batmobile or a little-known Shadow CanAm design. The bazooka-like thing above the cockpit is either an air intake or a forward-firing weapon, located right next to the driver’s head.

And while we’re on CanAm cars, sitting in a corner was the one and only Sting GR-1, built and driven by CanAm independent Gary Wilson.

Here’s an Osella-BMW fresh from restoration. note the Yardley BRM and the Chevron in the background. VP does everything from complete restorations to routine maintenance to trackside support for its customers and their cars.

Here’s another Osella. Both of them are powered by 2-liter engines.

This AC Aceca coupe (an AC Ace with a top) is one of the Cobra’s ancestors. The shade of red in which it’s painted is gorgeous. VP has its own paint booth and master painter.

A shot of some of the many customer cars stored at VP, with a very nice Elva Courier in the foreground.

Body panels and wing for a Lola T163.

These are either truly elegant flower pots for the office and showroom or vintage CanAm car or F-1 wheels.

This is the shop’s “winter project”. When finished it will be powered by a 500 cubic inch Chevy and feature all carbon-fiber ground effects bodywork…well, maybe not. But it ought to be great fuel-efficient transportation for two people who like to be close to each other.

Our thanks to Virtuoso Performance not only for their business but also for giving us the chance to see and photograph a great shop full of fine race cars. If any of our readers are into 1:1 scale vintage racing and looking for a prep shop in the San Francisco Bay area, check out VP at www.vprace.com.

In response to customer requests we are bringing in the Supertires product line, including Supertires, Superwheels, and Yellow Dogs. We have placed our initial order and we expect to receive our first shipment in about a week.

We have put a car, somewhere on the web site, on sale at $90% off its original retail price. When it sells we will put another, different car on sale at $90% off. We will keep doing this for the duration of our 2011 special sale program. Good hunting!Click here to start the hunt.

This week we have a lot going on, but first, let us say Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you got to spend an amazing weekend with the people you love. We also hope you didn’t eat the whole turkey… This week, we have new slot cars from NSR & Fly, plus cool race sets from Ninco and our own Electric Dreams packages! Enjoy!

This week Electric Dreams is excited to announce a brand new never before release car from Fly: The Fly F14101 Alfa Romeo TZ2, Targa Florio 1966! We also have 3 new cars from LeMans Miniatures and a couple of great new Sets from Scalextric.

We have just received our first shipment of theCarrera GO! 1/43 scale cars, race sets, and track. Go! is is especially effective as a low-cost way to get your children started in slot car racing. The cars are more than a little toylike in their look, but they run well and the system as a whole delivers good value for the money. GO! works well as a way to let your kids try slot car racing when you don’t know whether they will stay with it for the long term and you don’t want to invest a lot of money into a hobby that may just turn out not to be their thing. You can use it to give your 5 or 6 year-old his own track and cars that he can play with when you are not around to supervise him as he runs on your "grown-up" track that you have put lots of time and money into.

We also believe that 1/43 scale is beginning to evolve into a scale for serious enthusiasts, especially those who are limited spacewise but don’t care for HO racing. Interest in 1/43 scale as a hobby rather than a toy is already developing, and we expect to see more scale appearing cars with higher performance emerging as time goes on. We have no trouble at all imagining a truly cool 1/43 scale racing layout with scenery and structures adapted from O-scale (1/48) model railroading and parking lots and pit areas filled with 1/43 scale diecast cars. GO! has many of the basics, including 2 different curve radii and an electronic lap counter, and we’re sure there is much more to come from Carrera and other manufacturers. We will be adding all the new releases for 2008 as they become available and we will be actively seeking out other 1/43 scale products to add to our selection.